Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-21
VICTORY oyER THE DLooDHoUNDs,

VICTORY OVER THE BLOODHOUNDS.
 do but we ate our breakfast in back kitchen, hats Just then three men walked in. They talked a little time about the weather and They asked us if we had not broken jail M in aoat At lanta. We told them, that we had. Then they and roads were all guarded, and that part of our comrades had been shot down in the woods, and that they had come to take us. Brown said: 'No, out of the back door and made for the neighbor- ing wood, jumping the fence and running like rwn h can but did not halt. We had no choice but to abandon Mason, who was taken back to Atlanta the same day. We undertook to cut across the road to get in behind them, as we feared to cross the open plaSntaton5 ant but but, we we failed failed and whom we had stayed turned his hounds loose and put them on our trail We had a big hill to d1 and dds en Ws p fo p best & could nd could hear the hounds coming their best. We got down the hill and across the flat, and were climb about to overtake us, and we prepared for battle by stopping in a stony place and getting pile of up ani took them at short range. We rolled them down the hill, and then as the southerners used to say after @ 1atle Me @ won M the th victory we could see our three callers coming around the road near by, on horseback, to get ahead of us: when we were out of sight changed our course so as to get away from the horsemen. They got part of their hounds rallied so that they would follow along and howl on our track but they could not be made to close up on us any more. After awhile wewould see these horsemen head ing us off again. and then we would cut in an- other direction, and the hounds would give them our course again. About noon we came to small on of We dd m a Rnged into and o water and drink as we ran. We kept in the bed of that stream for couple of hours, and then the Stone mountain, about eighteen miles east Of At lanta, and went on the north side of it and con- picked out the north star and travelled by it.
 For twenty days we travelled by night and hid by day 4e Each f3 day for several days out a bite to eat save what the woods furnished, such as nuts, bark, buds etc. On the seventh day were going along a little stream that had willows on both sides, and which ran through a on the other side, and we thought we could get on their slope and be travelling in the day time. We had great good fortune here, for we found in the creek, one of which we captured by means of the corn, and then getting into the mountains ever pched goose e Without sesdng they what kind of job we had! When we got tired en aoeg bite of it, then of corn That goose lasted several days!
 On the tenth day we reached the Chattahoo-- chee river There was Q rail fence alongside of the woods, and we took two large rails, crossed them near one end, lashed them fast with bark, and putting our clothes on the highest end, we foated at the other till we got across. We took a good sleep in the thick cane break on the other side.
 The next evening we came to drove of small pigs and began to figure for one. Finally stood behind tree with club; Brown bit off little pieces of apple and pitched to the pigs; and soon one little fellow commenced to pick up the pieces; then Brown kept working backward till he passed the tree where stood, and when the pig followed up shot him with my stick! Previous to this we found an iron strap that had fastened shovel to it's handle and one part of it had been worn thin. This was rubbed up little on stone and it made q very good butcher lsnife We split the pig, and with each Q half ron up the side of the mountain, could see over the farm where there was a fire burning out in a back field, and we went there and roasted pig most of the night, Then we had one of those feasts you read about! That pig lasted us till we struck the Hiwassee river in the corner of North Carolina. Here we had thought the day time But when we saw the river we changed our mnd for it swift stream full of great rocks, where could not have run @ canoe by daylight. But we tried to cross, and each picked out rock that we intended to reach. plunged in and missed my rock, as the current swept my feet away while tried to put my hands on it. looked to see what had become of Brown after had got on 0 fiat stone much further down the river than intended. He was sitting on stone laughing at me, though did not see where if he could get that far downl He started, and landed far below me, and did not feel so much like laughingl
 But the tug of war came when we were on the other side, for now we had to cross the noun tains which we had been travelling lengthwise be- forc-mountains ''it took two men and a boy to see to the top of it' It was so rough that we were four days going eirht miles
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